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Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4715

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Elephantine, excavation Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo
Inventory Number Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4715
Publication Number ined.
Current Location magazine Assuan
Publication Permission Status permission for publication assigned
Publication Status unpublished

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Elephantine (Ꜣbw; Yb; YbꜢ; YbꜤ; Ἐλεφαντίνη, יב , ⲉⲓⲏⲃ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Excavation team Elephantine, German Archaeological Institute Cairo and Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archaeological Research on Ancient Egypt
Certainty: high
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Elephantine
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type ostracon
Dating between 179 and 180
Criteria for Dating date in text
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation broken at left, top and right

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object convex (outside)
Inks and Pigments carbon ink monochrome black
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) broken at top, left and right
Script, Primary Greek
Language, Primary Greek, Ancient
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines x+3
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title Receipt for poll tax (laographia) and contribution for the men who have fled (merismos andron anakechorekoton)
Ancient Archives none
Ancient Scribe(s) of Text
Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | receipt | tax receipt
Summary of Content Receipt for poll tax and the contribution for the men who have fled, written by scribe Serenus in year 20 of Marc Aurel and Commodus
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
convex
x– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
x+1 -?- ̣ ̣ ρ̣ε̣ ̣() -?-
x+2λαο(γραφίας) τοῦ κ (ἔτους) (δραχμὰς) ε ????, καὶ ὑπ(ὲρ) μερισμ(οῦ)
x+3ἀνδ(ρῶν) ἀνακεχωρηκότων λήμμ[ατ(ος) ιθ (ἔτους) (δρ.) -?-
convex
x– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
x+1---
x+2poll tax of year 20, 5 dr. 1 ob., and for the contribution
x+3for the men who have fled, for the accounting of year 19 dr. ---
DAIK_O4715_ELE-45-PW-0
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Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
Commodus 20 179 CE 180 CE date in text;

 

Pictures

DAIK_O4715_ELE-45-PW-0
Reserved Copyright

 

Literature

previousely unpublished

 

DatasetID 316024
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata)
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 316024 (= Ostr. Elephantine, excavation DAIK O 4715), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ruth Duttenhöfer; Julia Puglisi (metadata).